The key to Ron Paul’s victory

I’ve never been one to proclaim the glory of Ron Paul to high heavens. I’ve had some “interesting” verbal sparring with some of his fans, who I may or may not have referred to as cult members (among other things). But it’s all past us now. I was given an assignment to make a commercial for a Republican candidate. We were to choose names out of a hat. Before I chose, the images of bigoted ignoramuses with a fetish for protecting the wealthy spun through my mind. Would I get the slippery fish Mitt Romney? Maybe I’d have to put my talents to use for the “gaffe-less” Michele Bachmann. But as my fingers spun around the slips of paper, I knew my destiny: to make the campaign commercial that would propel Ron Paul to victory in the primaries.

Paul’s problem is that he is trying to appeal to simple voters with complex issues. Trying to discuss the Federal Reserve’s relationship to the economy isn’t the best way to appeal to voters who cheer murder. Paul already has the votes of the people who understand his positions. He needs the nutty Rick Perry or Herman Cain fans to come to his side. The key is playing it simple to win the primaries. With that in mind, I enlisted trusted actor and fellow New Visions classmate Zack Kilmer, and went back to basics as I got to brass tacks. Without further ado, be prepared to sign up for the Ron Paul campaign about two minutes after you finish watching the commercial once. Why would it take two minutes, you ask? Because you’re going to hit the replay button once, probably twice, as seeing something you probably thought was the work of Lars von Trier. Newsflash: it wasn’t. So here it is, a Devin Wallace creation.

Devin,
Did you find issues that you agree with Paul on now? If, so what do you still disagree with him on? Did you find information in your own research while doing your project that was counter to what you had heard previously? If so, what was the biggest realization that you had.
I think you did a good job here with a well reasoned goal going in. K.I.S.S is a proven course of action. You also did a good job of beginning true to the message and accomplishing massive, (if not over the top) simplification in the end product.
10 out of 10

Cult? Ron Paul supporters are not a cult, if anything the believers of the two party system that we have in America has everyone brainwashed is more cult like if anything. Ron Paul wakes people up to the belief in restoring our personal liberty and freedom. The majority of the people in this country are still brainwashed to the corrupt 2 party mentality and they simply do not understand inner workings of our government. Its sad that a libertarian such as Ron Paul has to run as a republican to get his message out to the masses. Ron Paul supporters understand that our country’s political elite are slowly stripping away individual liberties ie: TSA, Patriot Act, Higher Taxes, while the rest of America sits home like freaken zombies and only complain while doing NOTHING!

We are passionate about our beliefs of individual liberties that so many in our country are too simply willing to give up and this makes me personally sick. The average Ron Paul supporters knows more politically than a non supporter, like the video says there are too many simpletons out there who refuse to educate themselves on the role of government. A lot of people are simply accustomed to the Socialist State our government has become. What happened to owning your own body? The Government owns you! Do research, open your eyes to the workings of the federal reserve. Research who supported big bank bail outs through tax payer funded TARP and through QE’s. Its all out there.

If you are not happy with the current situation that our country is currently in do something about and stop b*tching about how bad you have it. What makes me sick are the people who sit home complain about how they will have to vote for the lesser of two evils. Your still voting for evil. Make a stand and stand up for yourself!

Ron Paul has been making that stand since 1971 when Nixon took us off the gold standard and started printing monopoly money. Look at inflation, look how your dollar losing its value daily, the fed keeps printing monopoly whenever it feels like through Quantitative Easing. Have you noticed your cost of living has increased dramatically. You need to educate yourself to the causes of these things and Ron Paul supporters understand it. We need SOUND money back by commodities and not fake monopoly money printed by the Fed (which is a collection of private banks from around the world who pick and choose who to bailout).

Ron Paul has been fight over 30 years in congress against the corruptness in government he has predicted and warned us about the housing bubble 10 years before it happened and he was labeled “cazy” because the people do not want to hear the truth!

I could go on.. but its up to each American citizen to educate themselves.

This Revolution does not end with Ron Paul, he has opened the eyes of many and his fight for liberty will go on!

@fyi2day: I’ve always agreed with Paul on his anti-war and anti-Drug War stances, although I’m wary that he wouldn’t mind individual states having barbaric drug policies as long as the federal government doesn’t take a stand. Nevertheless, Paul believes strictly in capitalism, something I disagree with.

Hear tell that we are pulling out of Iraq. No kidding? With that country so screwed up from both an internal and international security perspective? Huh.

So why can’t we do that right now in Af-Pak? Both countries are just as screwed up security-wise as Iraq. Another year, two, three, four or more of our blood and treasure isn’t going change Afghanistan or Pakistan for the better, nor increase our security here in the US.

And that’s precisely why I support Ron Paul for president. Like me he’d rather end things that can’t end well sooner, much sooner, rather than later. Af-Pak, Fed bailouts of US and European banks, the drug ‘war’ — all those things can’t end well, but can end sooner rather than later.

This was picked up by google news. They have a very liberal definition of news.
I don’t know if you have real dreams of being a journalist, or if this was just a high school assignment. But you do you want to have a career in journalism. You need to work on getting your point across with out name calling and speaking down to people. It makes you sound extremely ignorant. You sound no better then the people you refer to “bigoted ignoramuses”.

If you are concerned about Paul’s stance on “pure capitalism,” I may be able to shed some light on your understanding of his position and you may find that you agree.

Dr. Paul does not believe that anyone has the right to steal or to defraud. It is a legitimately constitutional function of the government to investigate, prosecute, and punish these as crimes. As Paul and many of his supporters have seen in various fields, the financial regulatory agencies have been entirely derelict in this duty, and in some respects complicit, or even accomplice to corporate and wall street fraud.

Ask yourself this: Why did it take so long for the FEC to go after Bernie Madoff?

While the idea of regulations against fraud and theft is important, you must try to divorce this from what we have now, which is regulatory agencies; not necessarily lawful regulations.

You see, just like in the food and pharmaceutical industries, the regulatory agencies are run by the very same people who they are appointed to regulate. The majority of chief regulators for food, drugs, and finance come as general counsel, CEOs, and other highly positioned employees of the major companies that are supposed to be subject to the regulations.

What’s the end result? The power of the agency is abused in favor of those big companies while trampling the rights of the consumer and smaller business in each respective field.

This is a result of CORPORATISM, not capitalism. Ron Paul would abolish our current system that favors the corporations and their cronies.

haha this is so crappy its funny kudos. This could have been a commercial for almost anyone by the way. The humor stops when you realize that we actually stand on the edge of financial collapse. It’s not a laughing matter. The FED was able to inflate their way out of the last catastrophe in 2008, when it bailed out the banking system with what’s now being reported as 7.7 Trillion + 16 Trillion Dollars since 2008 – this money obviously had to be printed since it wasn’t taxed or borrowed. For anyone who hasn’t heard, its whole countries which are collapsing now. To do this again on this massive scale would cause collapse of the US dollar and instant hyperinflation in the USA. For anyone who hasn’t heard of that, that’s when your paper money turns worthless virtually overnight. It happens every time money is created in such massive quantities (Weimar Germany is one of many good examples). There are only two ways to stop this from where we stand today – one is to let the system crash and create competing currencies, ending the FED’s (who isn’t loyal to the US but to its shareholders…yes it’s private) monopoly on the money supply. This is Ron Paul’s way. The other way is to start a massive war. We are seeing US/NATO instigate Syria, Iran, Pakistan, CHINA AND RUSSIA simultaneously. These countries are actually forming an alliance. Unfortunately, this is the side most of the US government stands on. DO THE MATH. If this comes as a shock or seems irrational, I invite/challenge you to research any of these points for yourself. Oh and…Devin Wallace you’re a douche of course.

@David: The natural path of capitalism is one in which profitable businesses use their financial power to take control of government. As wealth becomes concentrated in the hands of the few, the wealthy use it to secure their hold on even more power. It’s admirable that Ron Paul and other libertarians want to abolish the corporate stranglehold, but if they really wanted to take back power for the “common man,” they’d realize a democratic organization of the economy (i.e. socialism) is needed.

@gravy: there is a third option. Abolish the economic system that is focused on profit instead of the needs of people (capitalism) and replace with with a democratically organized system that doesn’t need endless wars to be profitable.

Obama lost my vote this coming election cycle because he drastically changed his campaign pledge to expeditiously pull troops out of Iraq. (Incredibly even after he received the Nobel Peace Prize). Therefore my vote will be the same candidate that is receiving the most donations from veterans (a group who definitely has been exposed to the horrors of war).

@ Devin Wallace: Socialism is the answer for lazy people who refuse to provide for themselves, and believe that we productive members of society owe them something for our hard work.

Four years ago, as a result of a divorce, I was nearly penniless, and homeless, but I refused to give up or give in to self pity. I did anything and everything I could to earn a penny, and through hard work and determination, my business is going to hit 1.3 million in sales this year.

If you think you’re entitled to anything I have earned, you’re smoking weed.

In a socialist economy everyone is a loser. In a capitalist economy, only the lazy are losers.

And for those non-commies on this blog, anything is possible if you work hard and never ever give up.

@Jim: the past four decades have shown us that the working class as a whole is on the losing side in the class war being waged by the rich. There are more people than jobs, so by the sheer fact of numbers there will be hardworking people without jobs. Your determination is to be applauded by it doesn’t mean others don’t work as hard but for little to no results. We’ve seen real wages decrease over the past decades even as productivity has risen. The gap between the rich and everyone else (hard-working people) has increased, leaving the rich to laugh at us as we sit in the dust.

Socialism isn’t about entitlement. It’s a rational system created through democracy and conversation. Capitalism, on the other hand, is like a pack of ravenous wolves on a carcass. The working class is being devoured by businesses who value profit over people.

There are millions of people who work hard and don’t achieve the “American Dream.” It’s not because they’re lazy; it’s because power and wealth is concentrated in the hands of the few.